Upon request I have reformulated my question for clarity so others might benefit better from the answers.
I have 3 domains for the company I work for:
bizwizprint.com (the main website that is hosted on a shared server)
bizwizsigns.com (secondary domain with no hosting attached)
boatwiz.com (tertiary domain with no hosting attached)
The goal is to get my second and third domains to redirect to the first domain onto their own respective landing pages.
First Step: At the domain registrar, change the DNS "A Records" of the second and third domains to resolve to the same IP address that the main website is hosted on.
Second Step: Create a "Site Alias" on the main website server for the second and third domains, they will point to the root directory where the main website files reside.
Third Step: Create or edit an .htaccess file that will redirect the requests for the second and third domains and point them to the landing pages that I have created for them.
The question: What rules do I add to htaccess?
Essentially, I would like to have a user type in "boatwiz.com" in the address bar and the browser will literally GO TO "bizwizprint.com/boatwiz.html".
Please note: I do not want any rewrite rules that will change the actual URL to boatwiz.
The reason for this is that it is a temporary thing. Eventually there will be an actual "boatwiz" website and "bizwizsigns" website and they will most likely be very different in structure. I don't want it to appear that I have three domains with all the same content, or have people make any bookmarks that I will need to redirect yet again in the future.
Use a 301 redirect . htaccess to point an entire site to a different URL on a permanent basis. This is the most common type of redirect and is useful in most situations. In this example, we are redirecting to the "example.com" domain.
Pointing two URLs to the same website is a good way to direct traffic to your site from several different domain names. You can accomplish this in two ways: either redirect one of the URLs to your primary domain, or create an alias for one of the URLs. The alias would point that domain towards your primary domain.
"How do I redirect an external domain (boatwiz.com) to land in a specific page of a new domain (bizwizprint.com/boatwiz.html) without any rewriting?"
So you probably mean that you want an "internal redirect", not the "external redirect", right? I.e. you want e.g. the bizwizsigns.com
to stay displayed in the browser Location bar, but show the contents
of bizwizprint.com/signs
, right?
Well, using only .htaccess, this is impossible, because the different domain will force the external redirect. Citing the docs:
Absolute URL
If an absolute URL is specified, mod_rewrite checks to see whether the hostname matches the current host. If it does, the scheme and hostname are stripped out and the resulting path is treated as a URL-path. Otherwise, an external redirect is performed for the given URL. To force an external redirect back to the current host, see the [R] flag below.
What you could do is to use iframe. Put this code at bizwizsigns.com/index.html
:
<iframe src="http://bizwizprint.com/signs" width="100%" height="100%"
style="border: 0 none;" frameborder="0">
But there are many downsides of this solution:
Are you in a hosting environment, or do you have your own server? Sometimes the hosting allows you to make aliases of several domains that are handled by the same local directory tree. In that case, you won - you can write .htaccess so that it handles the requests as internal redirects:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} bizwizsigns\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /signs [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} boatwiz\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ /boats [L]
which will (internally) redirect bizwizsigns.com
to /signs (= your content of bizwizprint.com/signs
, because you have one hosting server directory for all 3 domains). But if you e.g. want all queries like bizwizsigns.com/<foo>
to be redirected to bizwizprint.com/signs/<foo>
, you have to be more careful - see the added condition on REQUEST_URI
to prevent endless loop:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} bizwizsigns\.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/signs/ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ /signs/$1 [L]
Assuming that you have all 3 domains pointing to the same document root, you just need this in its htaccess file:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} bizwizsigns\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://bizwizprint.com/signs [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} boatwiz\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^$ http://bizwizprint.com/boats [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} (bizwizsigns|boatwiz)\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ http://bizwizprint.com/$1 [L,R=301]
So if it's just http://bizwizsigns.com/
or http://boatwiz.com/
, then you get redirected to http://bizwizprint.com/signs
or http://bizwizprint.com/boats
. But if you have anything after the last /
, like http://bizwizsigns.com/foo/bar.html
then you'll get redirected to http://bizwizprint.com/foo/bar.html
.
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